Kiva Cofounder Jessica Jackley Shares 3 Startup Tips
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Kiva cofounder Jessica Jackley received a Visionary Award at SVForum in Silicon Valley this month. She joins an impressive roster of honorees that...
View ArticleHow Iraq's Militants Are Winning The Battle Online
Twitter users around the world were shocked this weekend when an account linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria posted photos that appear to show the brutal execution of government-allied...
View ArticleCable TV Boxes Become 2nd Biggest Energy Users In Many Homes - Los Angeles Times
In the middle of the night, when most Americans are sound asleep, their lights and appliances off, a power hog is wide awake and running at nearly full throttle: the boxes that operate their cable or...
View ArticleWhy So Many Translators Hate Translation Technology
In general, technology should serve to make our lives better. Software can automate manual steps, reducing the human workload. Translation, like most language-related tasks, is complex. Machines have...
View ArticleHow The World Cup Made These Chicago Seniors And Brazilian Students Internet...
CHICAGO -- Ruth Bamford is excited about the U.S. soccer team's recent World Cup victory in Brazil, so much so that the 86-year-old has team USA's remaining Group G challengers memorized: "Portugal's...
View ArticleT-Mobile CEO John Legere: AT&T And Verizon Are 'Raping You'
T-Mobile’s foulmouthed chief executive may finally want to bite his tongue. During an expletive-laced presentation at a company event on Wednesday, CEO John Legere compared the prices of rivals...
View ArticleStarbucks Isn't Spending As Much As They Want You To Think For ASU Scholarships
NEW YORK (AP) — The scholarship portion of a new education program Starbucks is offering to help workers pay for an online degree consists entirely of a discount from Arizona State University and not...
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This Robot Comedian Is No Louis C.K.
Computers trounce people at milking cows, building cars and winning "Jeopardy!" But there are some jobs better left to flesh-and-blood humans. Case in point: Kobian, the robot comedian developed by...
View ArticleApple's iWatch Is Coming In October: Source
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc will start mass production of Apple Inc's first smartwatch in July, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the tech giant tries to prove it...
View ArticleWhy Retailers Must Embrace the Mobile Mind Shift
Mobile has fundamentally changed consumer expectations. Already, 65 percent of online consumers use their smartphones in stores. Among those under the age of 34 years, more than half use this device to...
View ArticleThe Four Types of Friends You Have on Facebook
Your Facebook newsfeed is likely made up of two kinds of people: Those you actually talk to in real life and, well, those you don't. Through the years, you've probably accumulated a laundry list of...
View ArticleWatch These Elders Get Their Minds Blown By Google Glass
Not long ago, The Fine Bros showed us a group of children who were dumbfounded by the walkman. On the other side of that technological gap is this: what happens when you show a group of elders Google...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Tears Into IRS Commissioner: 'Nobody Believes You'
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) tore into IRS commissioner John Koskinen on Friday, saying he doesn't believe that many of ex-IRS official Lois Lerner's emails were lost. Ryan told Koskinen during his...
View ArticleWATCH: Stunning Truths Your Facebook 'Likes' Really Reveal About You
Are you sharing more than you mean to online? Computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck explains how the simple act of "liking" something on social media reveals more personal information about you than...
View ArticleWill Computers Soon Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves?
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. My first reaction to Jennifer Golbeck's TED Talk on the "Curly Fry Conundrum" was "Curly Fries! You've got to be kidding me!" Computers capable...
View ArticleGovernment Says No Mores Drones In National Parks
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service is taking steps to ban drones from 84 million acres of public lands and waterways, saying the unmanned aircraft annoy visitors, harass wildlife and threaten...
View ArticleThings Get Surprisingly Deep When CollegeHumor Dares You To Watch A 3-Minute...
Don't worry, this isn't one of those scary pop-up pranks. All you have to do is sit still for three minutes. In a video that's part satire, part PSA and (oddly enough) part meditation exercise,...
View Article15 Seconds to Infamy
Ubiquity is not tantamount to notoriety. In fact, it may be a recipe for anonymity. Due to Big Data, everyone has less than Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame. In fact, 15 minutes of fame in our current...
View ArticleBig Data, Democracy and The Path Not Taken
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck's TED Talk, '"The Curly Fry Conundrum: Why Social Media 'Likes' Say More Than You Might Think," performs a...
View ArticleYo Hacked Just Days After $1 Million Investment
Yo, an app whose function consists solely of messaging the word "yo" to other people -- and whose rise says a lot about the overwhelming absurdity of Silicon Valley -- has been hacked. TechCrunch...
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